Copy-holder



(No Model.) 7 N. G. LESLIE.

COPY HOLDER.

No. 500,715. Patented July 4, 1893.

II ITWESSES 1. V VEW T05? UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NEIVTON G. LESLIE, OF KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN.

COPY-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 500,715, dated July 4,1893. Application filed December 17,1892. fierial No- 45 A m -l To allwhom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, NEWTON G. LESLIE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Kalamazoo, county of Kalamazoo, State of Michigan, haveinvented a new and useful Copy- Holder, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to that class of copyholders for type-writingmachines, which employ spring clamps for holding the copy to itssupport.

One object of the invention is to add to the utility, by making theholder proper more convenient to operate and adapted for holding agreater variety of copies, manuscripts, books, 850.

Another object is to provide an improved coupling for coupling the armwhich holds the copy-holder proper, to some portion of the type-writer,which consists in a clamp having an upwardly tapered projection, and aninverted funnel-shaped socket, coupling said arm to the clamp, which isattached to said machine, the utility of which is to establish a closefit and make the arm more readily attachable and detachable.

In the drawings formingapart of this specification, Figure l is aperspective View, showing a broken portion of the typewriter in dottedlines; and Fig. 2 is a side elevation, looking against the holder properin Fig. 1 from a point at the left.

Referring to the lettered partsof the drawings, A is an arm, provided atone end with an inverted, funnel-shaped socket, B. The clamp, O, (whichclamps in the ordinary manner to some portion of a machine, D) isprovided with an upwardly tapered projection, shown by dotted lines atE, in Fig. 1, which upwardly tapered projection detachably fits into thefunnel-shaped socket in the arm A, so that the said arm A may be swunglaterally upon these bearings and can be readily attached and detachedfrom it, and still establish a close fit, by the weight of the arm, A.Toward the other end of the arm A, said arm is provided with sockets, ee, into which sockets is detachably inserted the stem, F, which stemsupports the holder proper, said stem being adjusted from one of thesockets e to another, according to the desired distance of the holderproper from the machine. This stem F also turns in the socket e, so asto turn the holder proper to diflerent positions.

The plate, I, of the holder, is mounted upon the upper end of the stemF, at an oblique angle, by means of a lugged casting, J, as here shown,but may be attached in any other suitable manner. This plate, I, isturned forward and upward at the base, as at c, and rearward anddownward at the top, as at o, for the purpose'of finishing andstiitening the plate, and the lower curve also serves as a rest tosupport heavy books or manuscripts, and also forms a pocket for holdingpencils, erasers, 850.

At f is a spring clamp, consistingof aspring metal wire extending acrossthe upper part of the front face of the plate or support and having ateach side of the upper curved portion of said plate a short, upwardlyextendloop, z, from the rear portion of each of which loops 2 the wirepasses downward in the rear of and at a short distance from theplate,well toward the lower end of same, where it is bent forward uponitself and from thence passes upward in the rear of and close to saidplate or support, as at S terminating near the upper end of the plate,where it is attached to same, thus forming a long, downwardly extendingloop, L, in the rear of each side of the plate. This clamp might also beused in the reversed position, having the part f pass across the lowerportion of the face of the plate or support and the long side loopsextend upward, instead of downward, in which position it might be moreuseful for supporting heavy books. The ends of the wires, S, might bedispensed with in some instances and the lower ends of the side wires,L, be attached directly to the plate I, so long as the long, elasticside wires, L, are preserved. The advantage of these long side loops L,is that the operator, by taking hold of the sides of the plate and holdof the side loops L, at about the center, and compressing them together,can more conveniently open the clamp, that is, swing the part f forward,for the attachment of the copy, manuscript, book, or whatever is beingclamped. The object of the peculiar loops, 2, is that a manuscript orcopy wider than the holder, and especially a book that opens sidewise,can be clamped by the part f and not interfere with the side wires L.However, so far as the advantage of opening the clamp is concerned, theloops 2 might be dispensed with and allow the part f to pass directlyacross the front face of the plate from one loop L to the other.

So far as the plate I is concerned, it might, of course, be an open workframe, so long as it formed a proper support for the clamp and copy.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. In a copy holder, a plate or support, having a spring clampconsisting of an elastic wire extending across the front face of theplate or support, near one end of same, the wires at each end of saidclamp being extended into ashort loop, from the rear portion of whichloops the ends of the wire pass toward the other end of the plate orsupport, in the rear of and a little to one side of same, where thewires are bent upon themselves and from thence pass in the rear of saidplate or support toward that end of the plate in front of which theclamping part of the wire passes, where they are attached to said plate;substantially as set forth.

2. In a copy-holder, a plate or support, with its lower end rolledoutward and upward and its upper end rolled backward and downward,having a spring clamp consisting of an elastic wire extending across thefront face of the plate or support, near one end of same, the wires ateach end of said clamp being extended into a short loop, from the rearportion of which loops the ends of the wire pass toward the other end ofthe plate or support, in the rear of and a little to one side of same,

where the wires are bent upon themselves andfrom thence pass in the rearof said plate or support toward that end of the plate in front of whichthe clamping part of the wire passes, where they are attached to saidplate; substantially as set forth.

3. The combination of a copy-holder, an arm for supporting said holder,said arm having at one end an inverted,funnel-shaped socket, and a clampfor attaching to a machine, being provided with an upwardly taperedprojection detachably fitting into said socket; substantially as setforth.

4. A copy-holder comprising a plate or support and a spring clampconsisting of an elastic wire extending across the front face of theplate or support near one end and from thence extending toward the otherend of the plate or support, in the rear thereof and a little to oneside of same, and terminating in the rear of the plate or support, wherethey are rigidly attached thereto 5 substantially as set forth.

5. A copy-holder comprising a plate or support and a spring clampconsisting of an elastic wire extending across the front face of saidplate or support near one end, and from thence extending at each side ofthe plate or support into short loops extending farther toward the endof the plate or support, and from thence extending toward the other endof the plate or support, in the rear thereof and a little to one side ofsame, and terminating in the rear of the plate or support, where theyare rigidly attached thereto; substantially as set forth.

6. The combination with the clamp and arm having the tapered projectionand inverted funnel-shaped socket for coupling together, said arm beingprovided at or near the other end with a series of sockets, of acopy-holder having a stem adapted to be loosely, detachably andadjustably inserted in the latter named sockets; substantially as setforth.

In testimony to the foregoing I have hereunto subscribed my name in thepresence of two witnesses.

NEWTON G. LESLIE.

Witnesses:

JAMES M. BILLIG, JULIUS ScHUsrER.

